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The wars & local soldiers, 1946

6,874 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 250

Australians Enlist in Indian Army

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 4

Because they have "itchy feet," 39 ex-R.A.A.F. officers and senior N.C.O.s left by the s.s. Mooltan this morning to join…

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Australians Enlist in Indian Army

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 4

Because they have, "itchy feet," 39 ex-R.A.A.F. officers and senior N.C.O.s left by the s.s. Mooltan this morning to join…

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Soldiers Seek Taxi Licences

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 7

Hundreds of ex-servicemen were seeking taxi licences, a R.S.L. official (Mr. Lenehan) said today…

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Soldiers Seek Taxi Licences

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 7

Hundreds of ex-servicemen were seeking taxi licences, a R.S.L. official (Mr. Lenehan) said today…

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Australians Enlist in Indian Army

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 7

Because they have "itchy feet," 39 ex-R.A.A.F. officers and senior N.C.O.s left by the s.s. Mooltan this morning to join…

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Australians Enlist in Indian Army

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 7

Because they have "itchy feet," 39 ex-R.A.A.F. officers and senior N.C.O.s left by the s.s. Mooltan this morning to join the Indian Army as privates…

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Cargeonel Bought with War Pay

The Sun · Sunday 6 January 1946 · page 15

CARGEONEL, winner of the first, division of the Sylvania Welter Handicap at Moorefield yesterday, was…

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Stop Press to Try War Criminals

Truth · Sunday 6 January 1946 · page 31

TOKIO, Saturday.—The international tribunal to try Tojo and [?]er top-flight war criminal sus[?] will be established within a…

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First win since return from war

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 6 January 1946 · page 12

MOONEE VALLEY, Sat.--Sailor's Gully today gave Tobruk Rat Cliff Manley his first win since his…

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Stop Press Late Edition War Criminal to Die

The Sun · Sunday 6 January 1946 · page 1

MOSCOW. Saturday.-- German Major-General Remlinger has been sentenced to death for shooting and deporting Russian…

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Parade There's Something Tinny About This New Surgery Wonder Metal Heals War Wounds

Truth · Sunday 6 January 1946 · page 17

TANTALUM, a soft blueish grey metal discovered nearly 150 years ago by a Swedish scientist named Anders Ekeberg, is now being used in "miracle" operations on war wounded in the famous Walter Reed Hospital in the United States…

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War Effort wrongly given third placing; jockey J. Thompson out for two months

The Sun · Sunday 6 January 1946 · page 13

WAR EFFORT was wrongly placed third, and successful Sydney jockey J. Thompson was suspended for two months in a sensational race for the Peter Moore Handicap at Moorefield yesterday…

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The Sunday Sun Pages for Women Social workers' (they did a big war job) plans for peace

The Sun · Sunday 6 January 1946 · page 10

SYDNEY'S new Lady Mayoress, Mrs. R. J. Bartley, who entered this week on her first peaee-time year of office, hopes to devote her energies to social welfare work…

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Sun Short Story Welcome Home

The Sun · Monday 7 January 1946 · page 8

ALF CONNELL frowned at the photo in the magazine. So this was the celebrated Professor Jessup, the man who had ruined his homecoming !…

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War brides' bleats

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 January 1946 · page 8

SIR,--Some of us ex-servicemen are sick of the bleats of the American war brides about the delay in getting to…

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War Veterans Called Rabble

Daily Mirror · Monday 7 January 1946 · page 14

LONDON, Monday. --Fourteenth Army veterans are described as an "undisciplined rabble" in an Army order issued…

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Peace or War in Industry?

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1946 · page 2

The steel strikes are over; the Ironworkers' Federation has been reregistered: electricity and gas rationing ended at midnight[?] the miners return to…

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Less Smallgoods Than During War

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 January 1946 · page 7

Smallgoods storekeepers said yesterday that they were more short of supplies now than they had been during the war. Other commodities in short…

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Japs' War Crime Requited by Death

Daily Mirror · Monday 7 January 1946 · page 13

LABUAN, Monday.--Captain Takakuwa, Japanese arch-war criminal responsible for the deaths of 824 prisoners of war, many of them Australians, was sentenced to death by hanging today…

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Japs' War Crime Requited by Death

Daily Mirror · Monday 7 January 1946 · page 13

LABUAN, Monday.--Captain Takakuwa, Japanese arch-war criminal responsible for the deaths of 824 prisoners of war, many of them Australians, was sentenced to death by hanging today…

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